The Experimental Words London show is nearly here! Next Monday our intrepid poets and scientists will debut brand new micro-performances at Springer Nature, exploring research through spoken word. The two previous shows in Manchester and Canterbury have been incredible, and London is in fact now sold out - though you can still book a place on the reserve list! In the meantime, here's poet Keith Jarrett's take on This Is Science, which he wrote when paired with Dr. Jess Wade.

This Is Science

I

Science is the process of waking up each day in order to formulate questionsScience is finding patterns in molecules that don’t behave in scientists that don’t behave in academics in competition for floorspace in rooms where floppy disk machines dominate waiting for their owners to update/retire/decease writing a thesis that no one will read in language thatneeds deciphering, even for you

(& your position is only as secure as your last grant & funding is more fickle than the findings from your experiments)

Poetry is the process of writing a book that no one will read in language that is often entirely inaccessible in illegible hieroglyphs

putting a microscope to the interactions between words finding patterns waking up each day in order to formulate questions andcoming up short

(& your position is untenable, your angst contained withinemail drafts about your last unpaid invoice, and your last grant application)

II

The structure of science is built around questions building reputations from presentations papers & talks (all the untaught technicalities thought-up by a blind panel of peer-reviewers, gate-keepers, tight-celled white coat